Allen Shugar

In celebration of Gay Pride, Urban Gallery presents SOME BOYS I’D
LIKE TO KNOW a retrospective exhibit by Toronto artist Allen Shugar
which explores the mystique of the male figure as an object of
attraction. While the artist uses oil-on-canvas to pay tribute to the
history of art, the male subject matter is the artist's somewhat
whimsical attempt to help redress the imbalance in western art that
saw the female image come to predominate (particularly in the 19th
and early 20th centuries), and become the ideal and only gender
thought "proper" to be represented in an erotically charged fashion.

Allen Shugar is a Toronto-born artist who discovered the joy of oil
painting in his early teen years. Since then, the creative urge has led
him to explore many areas of art and design, and he has worked as a
graphic designer, illustrator and jewellery maker. He also developed a
unique method for reverse-painting on glass. However, having never
recovered from his romance with the smell of turpentine, he returns
faithfully to oil-on-canvas for his most personal work.

The following are photographs from the URBAN GALLERY inaugural show, Allen Shugar solo exhibition 'FLOATING LEAF' which ran from November 29, 2012 to January 31, 2013.